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Page 84 of 1061930 · PDF PAGE 42
…asure fellow-parabolas, ellipses that cross his path, hyperbolas that span ail space with their twin wings. Perhaps he may corne at long last, leaping beyond the limits of his own law, to conceive that sublimely stupendous outrage to Reason, the Cône! Utterly inscrutable to him, he is yet well aware that he exists in the nature thereof, that he is necessary thereto, that he is ordered thereby, and that therefrom he is sprung, frcm the loins of so fearful a Father! His own infinity becomes zéro in relation to that of the least fragment of the so…
1906 · PDF PAGE 14
…nace burning ! Fails to us speech In Love’s exultant leaping ! Each merved in each The golden fruit is reaping ! Wilt slumber, dear? One last kiss, I be- seech ! Come to us, Death! My love and I are sleeping! EPILOGUE TO ‘‘GREEN ALPS.”? FAREWELL, my book, whose words I have not given One tithe of those fierce fires that in me dwell ! Now, after these long nights that I have striven, Farewell ! My spirit burns to know, but may not tell, Whether thy leaves, by autumn breezes driven, Fly far away beyond the immutable ; Whether thy soul shall find …
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…0. 30. 1.50-2.30 Dharana. Got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleep- p.m.p.m. ing) then resumed A’sana till 5.5 p.m. Now again at last the Golden Dawn. This, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the Dhyana and also keeping me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- tion—He knows! Thus the disk came clear: but I began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture. The flaming clouds are “thought”; the shadowy or hinted Form is Adonai…
1910 · PDF PAGE 182
…0. 30. 1.50-2.30 Dharana. Got very tired and lay down till 3.35 (not sleep- p.m.p.m. ing) then resumed A’sana till 5.5 p.m. Now again at last the Golden Dawn. This, as my intuition had already taught me, had the effect of slowing the Dhyana and also keeping me fixed therein. Yet, I fear, of partially destroying its perfec- tion—He knows! Thus the disk came clear: but I began to be worried by body and clouded by doubt, and an effort to return only brought up a memory-picture. The flaming clouds are “thought”; the shadowy or hinted Form is Adonai…
1929 · PDF PAGE 121
… it followed that the best corpses of all were those of executed murderers, whose vitality may be assumed as very great — though on this last point Cyril Grey, for one, would have disagreed with him, saying that the most vital people would have too much respect for the principle of life to commit murder in cold blood. However, Dr Vesquit had obtained an appointment as coroner in the most murderous district of London; and uncanny were the rumours that circulated among occult sympathizers. [173] His career had nearly been ruined on two occasions …
1905 · PDF PAGE 12
…mass, caressed by every purple lip. XAILX. Choked with their reek and fume and bitter Sweat His body perishes ; his life is drained; The last sweet drop of nectar has not stained Another life; his lips and limbs are wet With death-dews! Ha! The painter has attained As high a meed As his who first begot sweet music on a reed. XXX, And O! my music is so poor and thin! I am poor Marsyas?; where shall I find A wise Olympas and a lover kind To teach my mouth to sing some secret sin, Faint, fierce, and horrible; to tune my mind, And on a reed Better …
1939 · PDF PAGE 7
… Truth; Mine age holds thee naked, the hem of whose garment bewildered my youth. My soul being thus with thy soul, shall not soul win at last to the wit That its changeless perfection is death, itself the assassin of it? Love under will is the law; all that exists, from the dust To the Gods, is but jetsam of Love, cast up by the tide of Her lust. So I hail thee, Astarte, and hymn thee in brothel and temple the same, Who are seed of all change, being Love, by Corruption Thine innermost Name! I know Thy device to deceive Thy servants Thine image …
1906 · PDF PAGE 52
…have their joy, knowing the Noble Ones aright. In meditation firmly fixed, by constant strenu- ous effort high, They to Nibbana? come at last, the incom- parable security. Whose mind is strenuous and reflects ; whose deeds are circumspect and pure, His thoughts aye fixed on Law, the fame of |. that concentred shall endure. By Earnestness, by centred thought, by self- restraint, by suffering long, Let the wise man an island build against the fatal current strong. Fools follow after vanity, those men of evil wisdonr’s sect ; But the wise man doth…
1929 · PDF PAGE 45
…I should take the Magic Sword, make the appropriate symbols, and invoke the Names Divine appurtenant thereto: the Thing, shrivelled and blasted, would go back to those that sent it, screaming in agony, cursing at the gods, ready to turn even on its employers, that they might wail with it in torment." "One of the best numbers on the programme," said Simon Iff. "Now see the other way!" "Yes: if your way is better than that!" cried the girl, her eyes gleaming. "It isn't my way," said the mystic, with a sudden inflection of solemnity. His voice ros…
1919 · PDF PAGE 167
…ly found this out by ‘break’ which revived it. Brain soon took up Mantra automatically. Illumination in brain after a while. Towards the last saw some visions of sea, &c. (very slight). Space and time annihilated during most of the practice. Good. (Beginning good—end bad. O.M.) Mar. 30, 5.15 to 5.46 P.M.=31 Mins. Counted first seven breaks, then became concentrated and lost count. Interruptions. (1) A safety pin, falling on floor, made me start violently (2) R. called. Results: Breath arose on skin and the ‘light’ arose. Started to concentrate …
1929 · PDF PAGE 88
…f Lisa's blood — if he had to bribe the wagon-lit man. Then — who knows? — there might even be a chance to kill Grey. He waited till the last moment before he boarded the train. The train would stop at Moret-les-Sablons; by that time the beds would be made up; he would have plenty of time to act; he could go on to Rome if necessary. Cyril Grey, away from the influence of Simon Iff, had become the sarcastic sphinx once more. He was wearing a travelling suit with knickerbockers, but he still affected the ultra-pontifical diplomatist. "The upholst…
1930 · PDF PAGE 122
…of forty feet, and escaping without a scratch or a bruise, he was reminded of his many narrow escapes from death. These proved to be the last factors in his problem, which, thus completed, solved itself in a moment. (O. M. Chinese Frontier 1905-6.) 422 —
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
THE EQUINOX However, and as a last preliminary, the reader will be glad to mark the following part of the letter: “T beg of you, sir,” concludes the Man-Cover, “ not to send me any proofs before publication. It would be but an unnecessary trouble to you; to me such a mark of regard from an unknown benefactor would prove a burden and give occasion to my enemies for recrudescence of persecution. My mail is sure to be ransacked, if indeed I am to be blessed with any communication from the living. But when all the instalments are published and my n…
1909 · PDF PAGE 364
THE EQUINOX However, and as a last preliminary, the reader will be glad to mark the following part of the letter: “T beg of you, sir,” concludes the Man-Cover, “ not to send me any proofs before publication. It would be but an unnecessary trouble to you; to me such a mark of regard from an unknown benefactor would prove a burden and give occasion to my enemies for recrudescence of persecution. My mail is sure to be ransacked, if indeed I am to be blessed with any communication from the living. But when all the instalments are published and my n…
1929 · PDF PAGE 237
… saw the end of the game — for one!" He told her in a few words of the horror on the roadside. "Go!" he said, "take that girl, Douglas's last victim, for your maid. Go to America; find the Child of the Moon. There may, or there may not be, other tasks for us to do; I know not — time will show." "I will, I will," she cried, "I will go now, quickly. Kiss me first!" Once again the tears gathered in the magician's [333] eyes; he understood, more deeply than he had ever done, the Sorrow of the Universe. He saw how utterly incompatible are all our hu…
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…a, one rupee; Karma Yoga, twelve annas; and Jnana Yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,
1910 · PDF PAGE 36
…a, one rupee; Karma Yoga, twelve annas; and Jnana Yoga, one rupee, which is worth knowing con- sidering that the English edition of this last-mentioned work is priced at eleven shillings. JECF. [Yet we find Vivekananda, at the end of his life, complaining, in a private letter to a friend, that his reputation for holiness prevented him from going “on the bust.” Poor silly devil!—Ep.] 24,
1929 · PDF PAGE 76
for inaugurating the Millenium. I did remind Brother Cyril, by the way, of this last point, and he did need it; but it did him no good, for here we are at the threshold of a Great Experiment on yet another false track!" "He is only taunting me to put me on my mettle," laughed Cyril. "Now I'm going to bring all this to a point," went on the old mystic. "The Greeks, as you know, practised a kind of eugenics. (Of course, all tribal marriage laws are primarily eugenic in intention). But like the mediaeval magicians we were speaking of, with their H…
1910 · PDF PAGE 151
…bsorption into either the one or the other may be considered as re-entering that Equilibrium from which we originated. The first and the last words have been written on this final absorption by both the Vedantist and the Buddha alike. There no sun shines, no moon, nor glimmering star, nor yonder lightning, the fire of earth is quenched; from him, who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, the whole world bursts into splendour at his shining.* And— There exists, O Brothers, a Realm wherein is neither Earth nor Water time naught save the …
1910 · PDF PAGE 151
…bsorption into either the one or the other may be considered as re-entering that Equilibrium from which we originated. The first and the last words have been written on this final absorption by both the Vedantist and the Buddha alike. There no sun shines, no moon, nor glimmering star, nor yonder lightning, the fire of earth is quenched; from him, who alone shines, all else borrows its brightness, the whole world bursts into splendour at his shining.* And— There exists, O Brothers, a Realm wherein is neither Earth nor Water time naught save the …